3 August 1998: Publication in OBESITY SURGERY, 8, , Biliopancreatic Diversion with a Duodenal Switch November 2002: Presented two papers, Morbid Obesity Surgery: Actual Situation & Future Outlook and Morbid Obesity Surgery: Results, Spanish Surgical Society, Spain. April 2003: Interactive Closed Circuit TV Presentation: performed live open duodenal switch procedure from Bowling Green, Ohio to the spring meeting of American College of Surgeons, at New York, New York. May 2003: Presented paper, Open Bilio-Pancreatic Bypass with Duodenal Switch: How We Do It and Results, Mt. Sinai Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, New York. May 2003: Presented paper, Complications of Duodenal Switch Procedure: Treatment and Results, Mt. Sinai Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, New York. October 2003: Closed Circuit Video Presentation: surgical presentation from Bowling Green, Ohio to Chicago, IL for course on bariatric surgery, American College of Surgeons. December 2003: Presented ten year results re: Biliopancreatic Bypass with Duodenal Switch procedure at conference for Anthem Blue Cross at Indianapolis, Indiana. April 2004: Two day presentation on Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch at Bariatric Surgery Primer, American College of Surgery, Boston, MA May 2004: Presented Biliopancreatic Diversion with the Duodenal Switch Procedure, ASBS Consensus Conference on the Surgery of Obesity, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. June 2004: Presented Proper Parameters Used on Duodenal Switch, and Our Ten Year Results on 92% of 120 Patients, annual meeting of ASBS, San Diego, CA.

4 October 2004: Presented Biliopancreatic Diversion with the Duodenal Switch, at American College of Surgeons post graduate course Bariatric Surgery Primer at New Orleans, LA November 4, 2004: Presented before The Medicare Coverage Committee, U.S. federal government, Baltimore, Maryland, on Long Term Results of the Biliopancreatic Diversion with the Duodenal Switch. January 2005: Guest speaker at bariatric meeting in Clearwater, Florida. Presentation on the Duodenal Switch Procedure March 2005: Publication in OBESITY SURGERY, volume 15, No. 3, , The Biliopancreatic Diversion with the Duodenal Switch: Results Beyond 10 Years May/June 2005: Publication in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases 1 (205) , Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch October 15,2005: Key note Address at DS Institute course on, The Duodenal Switch, San Francisco CA, USA: Titled Development of the Duodenal Switch from inception to present day October 11, 2006: Served as faculty, presenting Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch, Sleeve Gastrectomy at American College of Surgeons 92 nd Annual Clinical Congress, Skills-Oriented Postgraduate Course 19, Chicago, IL Contributed chapter entitled Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch in publication of Surgical Management of Obesity textbook copyright 2007 by Saunders, Elsevier. November 10 11, 2006: Served as Faculty Member for ASBS Meeting Reference: Reoperation of failed Bariatric Surgeries using the Biliopancreatic diversion with Duodenal Switch May 3 & 4,2007: Served as Faculty Member for ASBS Meeting Reference: Approaches to Bariatric Revision Surgery Course, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Ohio Duodenal Switch and BPD: an overview

5 October 10, 2007: Served as faculty, Presenting Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch, Sleeve Gastrectomy at The American College of Surgeons 93 rd Annual Clinical Congress, Skills-Oriented Postgraduate Course, New Orleans, LA August 28, 2009: Keynote Speaker Presenting The development and results of the Biliopancreatic Diversion with the Duodenal Switch., Formation of Limb lengths in Duodenal Switch at the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO), Paris France Other Medical Activities: 1980: Guest speaker at Grand Rounds at the Medical College of Ohio, at Toledo (MCOT), on the subject of obesity surgery. 1983: Spoke at Grand Rounds at Riverside Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, on the subject of Banded Gastroplasties. March 1990: Presented paper at Bowling Green, Ohio to Toledo District Association of Operating Room Nurses on the subject of bariatric surgery and laparoscopic cholecystectomy. July 1994: Spoke to the Northwest Ohio Infection Control Nurses about bariatric surgery August 1994: CNE lecture for nurses on Bariatric Surgery and care of patients. Memberships: The American Society for Bariatric Surgery (Charter Member) Fellow of the American College of Surgeons The Ohio State Medical Society Wood County Medical Society Member of the American College of Surgeons: National Faculty for Bariatric Surgery (Sub committee appointed 2004)

6 Awards: June 2003: Received American Society of Bariatric Surgery Foundation Achievement Award, presented annually to one ASBMS member. Positions: -Active staff of Wood County Hospital, Bowling Green, Ohio -Guest Clinical Associate Professor at the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo -Wood County Coroner, Past Positions: -President of Wood County Medical Society -President of Medical Staff, Wood County Hospital Wood County Delegate to the Ohio State Medical Association, Bariatric Surgery Experience: More than 2000 primary surgical procedures and 400 revisions performed for the treatment of morbid obesity over past twenty six years. Of these about 1400 are Duodenal Switch procedures State Medical Licenses: Ohio, and Florida

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